Tag: physical sciences
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Foundations, Medtronic to Partner on Glucose Monitoring
JDRF and the Helmsley Charitable Trust have agreed to support work by Medtronic Inc. in Minneapolis on continuous glucose monitoring systems that can lead to development of an artificial pancreas. Financial details of that support were not disclosed. JDRF has awarded more than $1.6 billion to diabetes research since 1970, while the Helmsley Charitable Trust…
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National Lab Develops Demonstration Community Fuel Cell
Engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington have created a more efficient fuel cell system that can provide electric power for neighborhoods. The PNNL researchers published their findings last month in the Journal of Power Sources (paid subscription required). The solid oxide fuel cell system developed at PNNL, a division of the…
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MIT, Intel Corp. to Collaborate on Big Data Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host a new Intel Corporation research center that studies techniques for organizing and making sense of the huge amounts of information generated by Web users and networked sensors. Intel selected MIT from 157 proposals submitted by 55 institutions. The challenge of big data, as this field is often called, has…
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Company, University Lab Design Thermal Solar Collector
An engineering company in Madrid, Spain, working with a research group at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), has designed a new central receiver for a solar thermal energy plant recently installed in Spain. Sun to Market is an engineering and IT services company in the solar energy sector that collaborated with UC3M’s Energy Systems…
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Light-Triggered Anti-Bacterial Technology Developed
Researchers at University of California-Santa Cruz have developed a method for eradicating drug-resistant bacteria from wounds and skin infections, using light to trigger the release of the chemical nitric oxide. The team led by biochemistry professor Pradip Mascharak published its findings online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (paid subscription required). The UC…
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Synthetic Platelets Developed for Therapies, Diagnostics
Chemical engineers at University of California-Santa Barbara, with colleagues at Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, California, have developed synthetic blood platelets for therapeutic and diagnostic uses. Their findings appear online in the journal Advanced Materials (paid subscription required). The team led by research scientist Nishit Doshi (pictured right), now with a…
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Canadian Universities Get $22M for Automotive Research
The AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence, a Canadian auto industry research program, will get an infusion of $22 million to fund a series of new projects at Canadian universities for the next two years. The Canadian government will contribute $10 million to the fund, with manufacturers, parts makers, and materials suppliers proving the remainder.…
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National Lab, Investment Fund to Support Battery Companies
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and CalCEF, a not-for-profit group in San Francisco supporting clean energy technologies, unveiled a program called CalCharge to help new energy storage companies. CalCEF has two divisions, the California Clean Energy Fund and CalCEF Innovations that designs business models, financial products, and public policies to foster clean energy. CalCharge aims to…
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$2.25M Challenge Seeks Health Care Sensing Technologies
Nokia Corporation, a developer of mobile systems in Espoo, Finland, is sponsoring a challenge to generate innovative ideas for sensing technologies to improve the conduct of health care. The Nokia Sensing X Challenge is conducted with the X-Prize Foundation and has a total prize fund of $2.25 million. The competition seeks ideas for real-time collection…
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docks at Space Station [Updated]
Update: 31 May 2012 NASA reports that the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking the completion of the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station. The capsule earlier began a 9-minute, 50-second deorbit…